Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

No, we did ... and I think everybody fervently hoped there might be a soft landing, but we were very sceptical and I certainly went, in particular, to the Central Bank and to the NTMA. But the Department of Finance, if I may say, made their presence available to Members of the Oireachtas via committees. They were not, to my knowledge, available on other occasions, other than when they came in and they briefed the Opposition in relation to legislation - for example, annually on the Finance Bill.